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Household living cost ­pressure may have eased – but they’re still increasing FIVE TIMES faster than wages. Figures out yesterday showed inflation, as ­measured by the consumer prices index, was 3% in April. That was down sharply from 3.5% in March ...
May 23, 2012 at 00:50 | Source: Daily Mirror
That's because voters decided in 2006 to adjust the wage floor for inflation, and the inflation index that the state uses is pointing toward an increase of about 15 cents an hour. The Missouri Department of Labor announces the inflation calculation every ...
May 16, 2012 at 11:42 | Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
if the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since the 1960s, it would be more than $10.50 per hour today. For tipped workers, wage erosion has been even more dramatic: current law requires employers to pay them just $2.13 an hour.
May 23, 2012 at 11:41 | Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
In 1968, the federal minimum wage stood at $1.60 an hour. If workers were earning the same amount in today’s dollars, adjusting for inflation, they would be paid more than $10 per hour, not the current $7.25 per hour. During that same time ...
May 27, 2012 at 11:58 | Source: Buffalo News
The proposed San Jose measure would raise the hourly minimum wage in the city from the current $8 state requirement to $10 with yearly inflation adjustments. It is modeled on San Francisco's 2003 minimum wage law, which includes annual inflation ...
May 23, 2012 at 02:51 | Source: San Jose Mercury News
"We're seeing continued slow improvement in labor markets, and the outlook for future inflation is back up to where it was earlier this year," Kobe said. Over its history, the WTI has predicted a turning point in wage trends six to nine months before the ...
May 15, 2012 at 10:32 | Source: YAHOO!
An important metal workers' union in Germany signed a 13 month deal for a wage increase of 4.3%. This is a benchmark for other unions and also joins other agreements that surpass German inflation and the ECB's target. An important metal workers ...
May 24, 2012 at 02:07 | Source: Yahoo Finance
In Sumner’s words, the Fed — as the last player in every round of the game — would “sabotage” any growth that rapid (especially, I would add, if it saw any traces of that terrifying bogeyman, “wage inflation”). All the players know that the ...
May 26, 2012 at 16:31 | Source: The Business Insider
The proposed San Jose measure would raise the hourly minimum wage in the city from the current $8 state requirement to $10, with yearly inflation adjustments. It is modeled on San Francisco's 2003 minimum-wage law, which includes annual ...
May 23, 2012 at 13:28 | Source: San Jose Mercury News
Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz said the minimum wage factor had been priced into the consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation published every month by the Statistics Department. She said the central bank's forecast for inflation ...
May 9, 2012 at 02:39 | Source: star.com.my